What ⁏ means
In Sindhi, ⁏ separates phrases; periods, question marks, and exclamation marks can close sentences.
A 2020 Unicode proposal notes that some fonts had offered the Sindhi shape as a glyph variant of the Arabic semicolon ؛. It recommends using ⁏ as its own character instead.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does ⁏ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type ⁏
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 204F, then Alt+X to get ⁏.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “reversed semicolon”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 204f, then Enter or Space.
HTML
⁏CSS
\204FCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⁏
HTML hex
⁏
CSS content
content: "\204F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%81%8F
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On screen
1
Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.